John Gerring Professor Office: PLS 300 Phone: 617.353.2756 E-mail: jgerring@bu.edu Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics, American Politics, Methodology

John Gerring received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.  He is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he teaches courses on methodology and comparative politics.  His books include Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2007), A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (with Strom Thacker; Cambridge University Press, 2008), Concepts and Method: Giovanni Sartori and His Legacy (ed. with David Collier; Routledge, forthcoming), Global Justice: A Prioritarian Manifesto (in process), and Democracy and Development: A Historical Perspective (in process).  His articles have appeared in a wide variety of political science journals.  He served as a fellow of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (2002-03) and a member of The National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Evaluation of USAID Programs to Support the Development of Democracy (2006-07).  He is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the global impact of colonialism (2007-10) and also serves as the president of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (2007-09).

Professor Gerring regularly teaches the following courses:
Political Analysis: A Primer (PO 502)
Democratic Governance (PO 521)

Global Justice (PO 523)
Political Analysis (PO 840)

Additional information:

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Web Site (including links to papers)